A chart of Falmouth Harbour (Massachusetts that is) making a decent lampshade here. Original post: Greg Fiske
Whoever designed this ‘map’ of a store layout really hadn’t grasped the basics of perspective, unless the floor slopes massively uphill to those fitting rooms, or the shop gradually tapers to a narrower length at the grocery end. Original post: Brian Kingery
Not sure whether the idea behind this is that you stick a pin in it to show where your heart is? Original post: Lauren Winkler
Ken spotted this globe used as the stone of an avocado in Tancitaro – one of the worlds largest avocado producers.
Amazing how Tanners the wine merchants have found a map of three wine bottle shaped mountains to feature in their shop window. Must be quite an intriguing landscape – almost as remarkable as the Eagle shaped mountain we featured back in November! Original post: Jon Haycox
This shop at Heathrow flogging souvenirs to departing travellers has taken one of the most admired cartographic designs of the 20th century, cut a bloody big hole in it for a flat screen telly to promote the sale of more crap, stacked up some ugly boxes of product in front […]
My dear friend Giuseppe has lots of hobbies and recently he has taken up embroidery and of course one of his early works is a map. Not much to see now but we’ll be following Giuseppe’s creation as it gets closer to completion.
